Category: In the Media
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Haaretz: “Dates of Infamy”
from Haaretz, September 16th, by Gitit Ginat Imagine a person. He might be a man over 40 years old, married, with children. Or he might be a teenager, who until recently was in school. Now perch him on top of a date palm that soars to a height of 10 or even 12 meters –…
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Al Haq- “One Year after ‘Disengagement’-Gaza still Occupied and under Attack”
AL-HAQ PRESS RELEASE One year ago, on 12 September 2005, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip under the ‘Disengagement Plan’. In the year that followed, the Gaza Strip endured military incursions, shelling, attacks on infrastructure, targeted assassinations, sonic booms, aerial surveillance, border closures, and fishing restrictions. Also Israel retains control of the…
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What You Can Do For Gaza
A British newspaper, The Independent is trying to launch a campaign to bring the world’s attention to what is happening in Gaza – they need strong letters of support and encouragement for this. Otherwise the momentum will not build and grow as it must in the coming days. The leader article is below. See also…
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Haaretz: “90% of Palestinian complaints to police ‘unsolved’ “
by Avi Issacharoff, from Ha’aretz, 11th September 2006. Followed by a collection of links to ISM reports on complaints to the Israeli police from which nothing has come. A total of 90 percent of the complaints filed by Palestinians in the West Bank against Israeli citizens for violent attacks have been closed without charges being…
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RMIT University press: “Mary’s Middle East mission”
Interview from community radio of RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia A former RMIT University lecturer has become a volunteer peacekeeper on a Middle East frontline – at 75. Mary Baxter, who lectured in statistics and mathematics from 1968 to 1996, is based in Tel Rumeida, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Hebron in the West…